Our Team

Dr. Jeff Russakow

Jeff is a deeply experienced technologist, scale and growth operator, board member, and growth investor with nearly 30 years of work experience.

Beginning his career as a Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, with multiple degrees from Princeton and Stanford, Jeff’s areas of domain include enterprise software as well as many of the emergent sectors relevant to today’s “hard tech” market such as industrial tech, manufacturing tech, robotics, IoT, AI/ML, transportation and autonomous systems/vehicles, EV’s and powertrain systems, energy storge and renewables, space tech, material science, and frontier tech. He additionally has a degree in Public Policy from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, where he focused on US industrial technology policy. 

Jeff has been a senior executive at Fortune 500 companies SAP, Adobe, Symantec, and Yahoo!, where he led global scale organizations with thousands of employees and partners across dozens of worldwide locations. In this capacity, he has led field sales, service, support, product management, product development, business intelligence, outsourcing/offshoring/reshoring, corporate strategy, and M&A.  He has been involved in part or all of nearly 100 post-merger integrations over the years. His early foundation in business was as a McKinsey & Company associate principal, where he focused on operational areas across enterprise hardware, software, and service companies.

Jeff has been a growth company CEO three times at Findly (HR SaaS), Gimbal (Proximity-based IOT and applications), and Boosted (light electric vehicles), achieving 4x, 5x, and 10x revenue growth rates in periods as short as one to three years. He was also president of Getaround (GETR), a quarter billion dollar global marketplace for peer-to-peet car sharing, which he helped take public.

Jeff has also been an operating partner in growth equity, and through Bovine Ventures serves as a growth advisor, board member, and exec to multiple investors and public/growth companies across manufacturing tech, industrial tech, transportation tech , space tech, and traditional enterprise software.

Overall, Jeff delivers a unique and differentiated skill set for growth investing, as a Ph.D. with a deep technical background, a subsequent 25-year arc as a global scale and growth operator, and an experienced growth operating partner and investor/board member.


Our Team

Dr. Jeff Russakow

Jeff is a deeply experienced technologist, scale and growth operator, board member, and growth investor with nearly 30 years of work experience.

Education

  • Stanford PhD Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

  • Stanford MSE Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

  • Princeton BSE Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

  • Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (Princeton) — Bacehelor’s Accreditation

Experience

  • McKinsey & Company — Associate Principal

  • SAP — VP Strategy and Operations

  • Adobe — VP WW sales Operations and Support

  • Symantec — VP Product Management; VP Global Services and Support; VP Corp Strategy and M&A

  • Yahoo! — EVP and Chief Customer Officer

  • Symphony Technology Group — CEO-in-Residence and Operating Partner

  • Findly (HR Tech SaaS) — CEO

  • Gimbal (Geolocation/geofencing; IOT) — CEO

  • Boosted (light electric vehicles) — CEO

  • Getaround (peer-to-peer vehicle sharing marketplace) — President

  • Terran Orbital (LLAP)/Tailwind — SPAC advisor

  • NUBURU (BURU)/Tailwind — SPAC Advisor

  • Bovine Ventures — CEO; growth advisor; board member; exec; investor

Through Bovine Ventures, Jeff serves as a growth advisor, board member, and exec to multiple investors and public/growth companies across both traditional enterprise software and deep tech —  including robotics, manufacturing and industrial tech, EV and autonomous vehciles, broader transportation tech, space tech, AI/ML, IOT, material science, power and energy storage, and consumer products.

Overall, Jeff delivers a unique and differentiated skill set for growth investing, as a Ph.D. with a deep technical background, a subsequent 25-year arc as a global scale and growth operator, and an experienced growth operating partner and investor/board member.


Our Team

Through Bovine Ventures, Jeff serves as a growth advisor, board member, and exec to multiple investors and public/growth companies across both traditional enterprise software and deep tech —  including robotics, manufacturing and industrial tech, EV and autonomous vehciles, broader transportation tech, space tech, AI/ML, IOT, material science, power and energy storage, and consumer products.

Overall, Jeff delivers a unique and differentiated skill set for growth investing, as a Ph.D. with a deep technical background, a subsequent 25-year arc as a global scale and growth operator, and an experienced growth operating partner and investor/board member.


Dr. Jeff Russakow

Jeff is a deeply experienced technologist, scale and growth operator, board member, and growth investor with nearly 30 years of work experience.

Education

Princeton

Woodrow Wilson School

Stanford

Experience

McKinsey & Co.

SAP

Adobe

Symantec

YAHOO!

Symphony Technology

Findly (now Symphony Talent)

Gimbal (now Infillion)

Boosted

Bovine Ventures